that's what I got when I looked it up- that is kind of funny because for a 45 rpm single here you pay $3-5 depending on if it is an indie- (indie is usually $5 because they cost more to produce) cd's new are usually around $22-25 (less for indie because CDs are cheap to produce indie- $5-$10 selling)
silicon valley isn't as bad as here in san francisco- I earn 65k and I am lower middle class- my GF earns 45k and she is at poverty level. We can just manage a 1 bedroom apartment with no garage (that is an extra $100-200/mo here) and have some spending $ (though it is pretty much all on me)we don't have cable- combined rent and bills is around 40k a year for the 2 of us (not counting food).
Come to think of it, where do they get off making me buy the whole song? What if I just want the parts where they go "Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa..." or "My lovely lady lumps" and not the rest of the filler garbage? This tyranny must come to an end! one word my friend.....
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I agree that you shouldn't pay someone to get pirated material- but just for kicks rather than just "seeing the band" people should by other merchandise from artists. I am an independent musician and honestly I don't care if someone pirates my stuff and doesn't like it- but if you want to support me and you already got the album, just buy a shirt or somesuch- and if you don't like my merch- send me an e-mail and tell me- no skin off my nose that I didn't dictate what you bought or how many friends you gave it to- so long as it spreads and I get some kind of return, besides I would rather have someone download it, like it and support me than have someone spend $ on it and regret it because they didn't really like it when they heard it. All that does is fill landfills with more plastic.
this is my issue too, I am an electronic musician, and I do remixes all of the time for other artists all over the world- so they have to send me copyrighted material- this is why I now need to change ISP's since AT&T is instituting file filtering- no more unencrypted transfer for me- and that will be a pain in the ass when someone that I am getting material from is sending me unencrypted material.
this is kind of like the old usenet days- when you used to be able to get photoshop as a jpg (or series of them) and then rip it with jaws or one of the other binary programs into the application-
Not if it's a Dell - those licenses are tied to the motherboard. Motherboard dies, Dell tells you buy a new copy of XP. One very good reason - along with "Recovery Partitions" and "Recovery CDs" and crapware - never to buy a Dell. that isn't true- I have used dell licenses from corp machines when they have died off (and hardware is cannibalized) at work on HP's and self-built machines- the recovery disc is a home user thing- though if there is a windows serial (like they all have) then you should be able to use that serial with the same version of XP that you had on the machine (pro, home, server) I have done that as well when machines go down.
There have been numerous businesses clamoringn to step into the nich, from Apple to Be and NeXT and now Linux. Apple has never made a major push to work as an office system- the most it has come up with is MS Office compatibility
NeXT was an offshoot of apple that was re-absorbed which basically makes it apple (though the systems were WAY too expensive for commercial use)
Be: I actually had friends that were programmers at Be and as hard as they tried- it really fell because it was so difficult to get people to develop for it since it was a late start and windows was already a dominant standard.
Linux is still a victim of itself at this point (I hope it changes because I would like to switch to it as a main system) since open source development never has the commercial application support that it needs for a number of things- and in a serious way that effects what I want to change: multimedia apps and gaming support.
By the way, to a considerable (but lessening over time) extent you *are* running VMS on your desktop. as true as that is if VMS was marketed as VMS I can't see it getting the same support that windows did since what windows did was use the NT kernel. Joe blow business man who was using win 98 would have been scared to switch to VMS, but felt comfortable going to NT or 2k or XP, so it was latched on familiarity.
Excuse me, but what *ARE* you talking about? The PC market was successfully built up, true. But it was also massively hindered by Bill's attacks on Netscape, the theft of VMS technologies by DEC, and the stunning fraud that is Microsoft API documentation. that still doesn't address what I was saying- Netscape? what was that? oh yeah- it was a web browser, a web browser is an application not an OS. And as far as the "theft" of VMS- dec was taken advantage of, but still left alone- would offices everywhere be using VMS? I don't think so. That is like saying that if Edison hadn't stolen so much from Tesla that we would all have Tesla tech in our homes- the fact of the matter is that Edison stole AC from Tesla, but is seen as the father of electricity in America (Edison wanted to establish a horrible network of DC generators across the nation, can you imagine having a generator every 3-5 miles to get electricity and that your power would be based on distance from a generator?). The true visionaries of modern computing all worked in the PARC set up by xerox anyways- but do we have xerox machines, I think not. Wozniak wanted to make computing more portable and accessible to homes and businesses- but you don't see macs in offices everywhere because that wasn't how apple pushed.
The widespread use of the PC is what Microsoft should be credited for- like I said- NOT business practices. The 2 have to be separated.
you can prolly trust pirate bay- but not the users on pirate bay- the best is to use a dummy e-mail and get things off private limited trackers if you want to keep under the radar.
that would be useless in bittorrent though- unless you just immediately got the movie anytime you wanted and there were a ton of them floating around- and if there were just a limited number you could only get a couple of seeds at a time- less if the file/computer goes offline at the time when it is supposed to upload- and the ques would be horrible as well- thousands of people clammaring for the same movie- plus, what is to keep you from just duping the movie on to removable media?
the best idea is still to have a membership site that is licensed by the MPAA\RIAA with fully opened copyrights and a host of seed machines owned by the licensed company.
"As long as you include the rule that people aren't allowed to use AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile, then Verizon is totally a monopoly." yeah, the funny thing is that AT&T is now a "public utility" so it is no longer a "monopoly"- which I don't understand how it still tries to pull things that as a "public utility" it is not allowed to do. Let's face it here in northern California we have 1 choice for our phone lines- AT&T and one choice for power PG&E (which is still a holding of enron).
You may as well ask small shop owners not to dislike Walmart: it interferes directly with the jobbies, and livelihoods, of many of us here. The problem with your argument is that like it or not bill gates (or I should say microsoft) is the reason that most people make a living working with computers. Stores existed before wal-mart, but your standard office computer didn't before windows. microsoft never "stole" business from people to be put there- it created the environment. If you ask wal-mart they will probably cite losses to online sales through places like amazon and e-bay for their losses. Gates may not have done things with the greatest of scruples, but you do have to consider that horrible things like company town coal mining, whaling and child labor all led to the industrial revolution- and without that we would not have most of the innovations that we have today.
Does this mean windows is the best product for all things and we all should use it- no it doesn't (and hell, who does use vista or even want to). What this does mean is that when you look back you can't discount that we really are where we are today in computing because of microsoft.
I think that is cool..... jack thompson will blow a gasket when he finds out you can actually "strangle people" and feel what it is like to "slash and shoot" people
yes and no....
election fixing
illegal war actions
torture
loss of civil rights
favoritism in gov't contracts
favoritism towards religion
restructuring gov't to give total power to the president
killing tens of thousands (if not hundreds-#s are fuzzy) of civilians (iraq)
stealing from the poor to give to the rich
spying on the civilian population
alienating the world populace
destroying the environment
subverting laws to "moot" the prosecution of these crimes .....I am sure I have missed some, but these sound like the action of a 3rd world dictator rather than a leader of the "free world"- the president just puts it all in a shiny "patriotism" wrapper to make it look nicer. I mean granted that you could say hitler or stalin or milosovich was worse- but that isn't saying much
the problem with that argument right now is that the sides are: those that want a militant state and everyone else. Bush is not "conservative" he is a dictator. Bush is playing the government like he owns it- something that NO president in the US has ever done- and the american public does not want it. Honestly what needs to happen is to have the office of the presidency de-escalated and give a little slap on the wrist by saying.... for over 2 hundred years presidents have played well with these rules, but if you can't we will have to take them away. The only problem is that anything that congress can do can be vetoed by the president. It starts to make you side with the senators of rome during cesar and the french revolution among others.
Rape isn't funny- but neither is subverting our governing system and taking advantage of the populous. I abhor rape- but if the whole white house staff was taken out on the white house lawn and violently penetrated I couldn't help but laugh.
if things keep up as they are though the music industry is only going to lose profits due to their lack of growth- they will be the victim of their own hubris. The fact is that if it is not "piracy" or itunes it will be another thing, and another added that reduces the profits of the industry because it is based on an album sale business and is spending more $ and turning off more fans every day to defend their business model which is antiquated.
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I agree on the games front- I am looking at jumping into consoles and gaming from there since a lot of titles are coming as vista or 360/ps3- I don't want vista and honestly can't use it since I do electronic music and vista supports somewhere between nothing and next to nothing in both hardware and software which makes it about even with linux. it makes me sad too, because since win 95 when I switched off my atari ST and Amiga 1k I have been die hard PC for my music production because with direct x support you can do so much more than on a mac, but at this point I feel like I am at the end of the road with PC until something changes.
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that's what I got when I looked it up- that is kind of funny because for a 45 rpm single here you pay $3-5 depending on if it is an indie- (indie is usually $5 because they cost more to produce) cd's new are usually around $22-25 (less for indie because CDs are cheap to produce indie- $5-$10 selling)
silicon valley isn't as bad as here in san francisco- I earn 65k and I am lower middle class- my GF earns 45k and she is at poverty level. We can just manage a 1 bedroom apartment with no garage (that is an extra $100-200/mo here) and have some spending $ (though it is pretty much all on me)we don't have cable- combined rent and bills is around 40k a year for the 2 of us (not counting food).
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they banned styrofoam here in san francisco - chinese is all in cardboard now.
for those of us idiot americans- how much is 99p in dollars?
I agree that you shouldn't pay someone to get pirated material- but just for kicks rather than just "seeing the band" people should by other merchandise from artists. I am an independent musician and honestly I don't care if someone pirates my stuff and doesn't like it- but if you want to support me and you already got the album, just buy a shirt or somesuch- and if you don't like my merch- send me an e-mail and tell me- no skin off my nose that I didn't dictate what you bought or how many friends you gave it to- so long as it spreads and I get some kind of return, besides I would rather have someone download it, like it and support me than have someone spend $ on it and regret it because they didn't really like it when they heard it.
All that does is fill landfills with more plastic.
this is my issue too, I am an electronic musician, and I do remixes all of the time for other artists all over the world- so they have to send me copyrighted material- this is why I now need to change ISP's since AT&T is instituting file filtering- no more unencrypted transfer for me- and that will be a pain in the ass when someone that I am getting material from is sending me unencrypted material.
this is kind of like the old usenet days- when you used to be able to get photoshop as a jpg (or series of them) and then rip it with jaws or one of the other binary programs into the application-
traditionally IRC would either give you servers with temporary passes or torrent links- DCC transfers are extremely slow
NeXT was an offshoot of apple that was re-absorbed which basically makes it apple (though the systems were WAY too expensive for commercial use)
Be: I actually had friends that were programmers at Be and as hard as they tried- it really fell because it was so difficult to get people to develop for it since it was a late start and windows was already a dominant standard.
Linux is still a victim of itself at this point (I hope it changes because I would like to switch to it as a main system) since open source development never has the commercial application support that it needs for a number of things- and in a serious way that effects what I want to change: multimedia apps and gaming support. By the way, to a considerable (but lessening over time) extent you *are* running VMS on your desktop. as true as that is if VMS was marketed as VMS I can't see it getting the same support that windows did since what windows did was use the NT kernel. Joe blow business man who was using win 98 would have been scared to switch to VMS, but felt comfortable going to NT or 2k or XP, so it was latched on familiarity.
The widespread use of the PC is what Microsoft should be credited for- like I said- NOT business practices. The 2 have to be separated.
you can prolly trust pirate bay- but not the users on pirate bay- the best is to use a dummy e-mail and get things off private limited trackers if you want to keep under the radar.
that would be useless in bittorrent though- unless you just immediately got the movie anytime you wanted and there were a ton of them floating around- and if there were just a limited number you could only get a couple of seeds at a time- less if the file/computer goes offline at the time when it is supposed to upload- and the ques would be horrible as well- thousands of people clammaring for the same movie- plus, what is to keep you from just duping the movie on to removable media?
the best idea is still to have a membership site that is licensed by the MPAA\RIAA with fully opened copyrights and a host of seed machines owned by the licensed company.
hahaha I was saying to my GF that someone would try to attempt this while sitting in the theater today waiting for transformers to start
Does this mean windows is the best product for all things and we all should use it- no it doesn't (and hell, who does use vista or even want to). What this does mean is that when you look back you can't discount that we really are where we are today in computing because of microsoft.
commodore 64 yes, I used at home- but when I was in elementary they taught us to program on an apple IIe
I think that is cool..... jack thompson will blow a gasket when he finds out you can actually "strangle people" and feel what it is like to "slash and shoot" people
yes and no....
.....I am sure I have missed some, but these sound like the action of a 3rd world dictator rather than a leader of the "free world"- the president just puts it all in a shiny "patriotism" wrapper to make it look nicer. I mean granted that you could say hitler or stalin or milosovich was worse- but that isn't saying much
election fixing
illegal war actions
torture
loss of civil rights
favoritism in gov't contracts
favoritism towards religion
restructuring gov't to give total power to the president
killing tens of thousands (if not hundreds-#s are fuzzy) of civilians (iraq)
stealing from the poor to give to the rich
spying on the civilian population
alienating the world populace
destroying the environment
subverting laws to "moot" the prosecution of these crimes
that's true, but you will have a hard time with a 2/3 in the climate as it is
the problem with that argument right now is that the sides are: those that want a militant state and everyone else. Bush is not "conservative" he is a dictator. Bush is playing the government like he owns it- something that NO president in the US has ever done- and the american public does not want it. Honestly what needs to happen is to have the office of the presidency de-escalated and give a little slap on the wrist by saying.... for over 2 hundred years presidents have played well with these rules, but if you can't we will have to take them away.
The only problem is that anything that congress can do can be vetoed by the president. It starts to make you side with the senators of rome during cesar and the french revolution among others.
Rape isn't funny- but neither is subverting our governing system and taking advantage of the populous. I abhor rape- but if the whole white house staff was taken out on the white house lawn and violently penetrated I couldn't help but laugh.
if things keep up as they are though the music industry is only going to lose profits due to their lack of growth- they will be the victim of their own hubris. The fact is that if it is not "piracy" or itunes it will be another thing, and another added that reduces the profits of the industry because it is based on an album sale business and is spending more $ and turning off more fans every day to defend their business model which is antiquated.
I agree on the games front- I am looking at jumping into consoles and gaming from there since a lot of titles are coming as vista or 360/ps3- I don't want vista and honestly can't use it since I do electronic music and vista supports somewhere between nothing and next to nothing in both hardware and software which makes it about even with linux. it makes me sad too, because since win 95 when I switched off my atari ST and Amiga 1k I have been die hard PC for my music production because with direct x support you can do so much more than on a mac, but at this point I feel like I am at the end of the road with PC until something changes.